08/05/2025
Meet the next Chair of CLCA | Home from NYC and Nicolai Frederik Bonnén Rossen has been elected the next Chair of Crisis & Litigation Communicators Alliance (CLCA) during our annual summit hosted by KARV as well as Greenberg Traurig at their offices in the newly erected One Vanderbilt tower on Manhattan.
CLCA is a global alliance of independent PR firms with expertise in crisis communications & litigation PR; one could say that what attorneys do for clients in legal contexts, we do -or support- in and around the public domain.
Yet, practitioners of crisis communications & litigation PR do not enjoy the same privileges representing their clients in the courts of public opinion as attorneys do in courts of law; this, along with greater understanding of our work, is what CLCA has been advancing for the past three decades and today has members covering major markets globally.
Rossen & Company has been a member since 2019 in testimony to our long-standing work within crisis communications & litigation PR on both domestic and cross-border mandates in Denmark, Scandinavia and beyond - and since 2024, we've also been running the CLCA Secretariat, courtesy of our colleague Henrik Hierl.
Assuming the Chair in July 2025 and merging with the Secretariat, Rossen's role will be to further institutionalize CLCA’s presence in the public, broaden the reach of our organization as well as the understanding of our members’ work.
As quoted by O'Dwyer's who kindly covered the summit:
– "With disputes increasingly debated or decided outside of the courts of law and fueled by public opinion, litigation communications has become a growing necessity. All parties within a dispute should ideally be provided this opportunity, and I am eager to help realize this objective in conjunction with my colleagues across the globe.”
Or if we should be so bold:
Everyone should have the right to representation -be it in the courts of law or public opinion- and publicists should enjoy privileges in taking on this important work.
These notions have been guiding principles of Rossen & Company ever since publishing an an op-ed in Berlingske in 2017 titled 'Everyone has the right to crisis communications’ in defense of our public representation of a client – in today's increasingly partisan and polarized media, politics and world in general, we believe the argument couldn’t be more relevant than now.
Interested in learning more about and or your firm becoming a member of CLCA?
Please feel free to reach out - link to the O’Dwyer's article in the comments.
